Reports
Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Top of the shops
The OC&C Proposition Index is a major piece of consumer research conducted annually, measuring shopper perception of the strength of different retail propositions
Monday 21st May 2012
The big leagues
The OC&C Proposition Index is a major piece of consumer research conducted annually, measuring shopper perception of the strength of different retail propositions
Monday 30th January 2012
Taking on the machines
The OC&C Proposition Index 2012 is the biggest and most comprehensive we have yet compiled
Tuesday 17th January 2012
Are you good enough?
Retailers have traditionally thrived by making choices. Some retailers would offer low prices, others great service, others huge range. Successful retailers made trade-offs in...
Monday 9th January 2012
Marrying the dragon
In recent years, China has played a greater and greater role in the cross-border merger and acquisition market. Outbound M&A activities have been accelerating...
Wednesday 4th January 2012
Moving into the fast lane
The B2B Services sector is a huge and profitable market, but poorly understood, and typically given much less attention than more mature consumer-facing industries....
Monday 2nd January 2012
Winning strategies for a smooth ride
There are growing concerns that the once sizzling Indian economy is cooling off. With the rainfall playing truant and industrial growth slowing down, both...
Tuesday 20th December 2011
Pricing for profit
Companies tend to set their prices too low in the business-to-business market. Regardless of pricing policy, some customers end up paying a price...
Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Game on!
The online gaming industry is undergoing a period of rapid investment, expansion and innovation. In the last few years, investment and usage has shifted...
Tuesday 8th November 2011
The good, the bad, and the ugly
The Christmas trading period this year may not have been a total wipeout, but it was a big disappointment for many retailers. And the...
Thursday 6th October 2011
The fog is lifting
For decades, customer service has been poorly understood – an afterthought to the proposition, a cost to be managed, or worse a series of...
Friday 2nd September 2011
Size isn't everything
Whilst all good competitive strategy can be traced back to first principles, you may think that reaching back to biblical times is a step...
Monday 20th June 2011
Land of the giants
The fight for survival rages on in food & drink. And this year’s OC&C Top 150 reveals that the UK’s biggest manufacturers are standing...
Wednesday 11th May 2011
New frontiers
As growth slows in the ‘Old West’, global suppliers are venturing into new territories. But they are facing stiff competition from domestic players...
Wednesday 27th April 2011
Opportunity knocks
For many years, the education sector has been poorly understood, captured as a subset of business services or the media sector. Education does however...
Thursday 10th March 2011